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THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS
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Not only is it the world's smallest ocean, it's also the shallowest.

What is the Arctic Ocean?

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In 2019 adult contemporary fans sure wanted to know "Girls Like You" from this Adam Levine band.

Who is Maroon 5?

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These rapscallions: "The Curse of the Black Pearl".

What is 'Pirates of the Caribbean'?

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Leading to the first animals, this element began to build up in the atmosphere 2 BYA as a product of photosynthesis.

What is oxygen?

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Bad robots & Xenomorphs are on the deadly prowl yet again in "Covenant", the most recent film in this interstellar terror franchise.

What is 'Alien'?

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On a high stone pyramid, Aztec priests performed sacrifices to Huitzilopochtli, god of this heavenly body.

What is the Sun?

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In 2019 this airline used employees as guinea pigs on a 19-hour flight direct from London to Sydney.

What is Qantas?

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This band was "Only Human" as a hitmaker in 2019, its humans being Kevin, Joe & Nick.

Who are the Jonas Brothers?

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This film series: "Battle of the Smithsonian".

What is 'Night at the Museum'?

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Land plants are about 450 mil. years old, but evolution didn't bring us these colorful seed-bearing parts until about 130 MYA.

What are flowers?

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The start of the 1977 "Star Wars" movie informed us it all happened "a long time ago in" this place.

What is "a galaxy far, far away"?

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Road-building & irrigation--lots of infrastructure investment by this S. American people who ruled an empire of nearly 12 million.

Who are the Inca?

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A specialty of Goa, India is feni, a potent liquor made from the fruit of the tree that produces these kidney-shaped nuts.

What are Cashews?

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In 2019, Garth Brooks and this fellow country star teamed up to hit "A Dive Bar".

Who is Blake Shelton?

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This lunatic: "or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb".

What is 'Dr. Strangelove'?

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The event of 65 million years ago that took out the dinosaurs is reckoned as the fifth of these mass die-offs.

What are extinction events?

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Directed by Stanley Kubrick, this epic film was inspired by the short story "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke.

What is '2001: A Space Odyssey'?

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This "green table" region of southwest Colorado was home to Pueblo cliff dwellers more than 7 centuries ago.

What is Mesa Verde?

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The name of this people of Kenya precedes "Mara" in the name of a national reserve loaded with lions.

What is 'Masai'?

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He surprised people at the 2019 VMAs by performing "Panini" over the very expected "Old Town Road".

Who is Lil Nas X?

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This naval epic: "The Far Side of the World".

What is 'Master and Commander'?

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One theory estimates that life on Earth began 3.5 billion years ago near these volcanic openings in the seabed.

What are (alkaline) vents?

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Led by Capt. Mercer, this sci-fi series on FOX sees its title ship & crew boldly going where no comedy has gone before.

What is 'The Orville'?

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In 1500 B.C. people in Central America were processing rubber in a way similar to this process discovered by "Goodyear".

What is vulcanization?

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"B" aware that this 19-mile-long strait splits Turkey into western & eastern portions.

What is the Bosporus?

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The album "Beerbongs & Bentleys" topped the Billboard 200, going pillar to him.

Who is Post Malone?

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This noble name: "The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes".

What is 'Greystoke'?

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Around 300 million years ago, almost all of Earth's continents came together to form one supercontinent known as this.

What is Pangea?

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She was Lieutenant Starbuck on "Battlestar Galactica" and now seeks out aliens as astronaut Niko Breckenridge on "Another Life".

Who is Katee Sackhoff?

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Existing from about 1200-400 B.C., this civilization of Mesoamerica is closely identified with giant stone heads.

What are the Olmecs?

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